Kraftyhands July Challenge - Summer Holidays

It's time for a new Kraftyhands Challenge!  This month its Summer Holidays, so I hope you have been enjoying some sun at home or maybe away some place lovely!  Its been hot and sunny here in London the last couple of weeks, well during the week anyway, with just a bit of sun and mostly rain at the weekends!

I chose to use the delightful Summer of 59 CD for this challenge as its full of chic ladies in holiday type scenes, and pretty fresh colours!  Oh and of course I had to use my new favourite dies to make some pretty flowers using the polkadot papers from the CD!

I am adding this card to:
Just Keep On Creating - July Anything Goes 

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Summer of 59 CD
Core'Dinations - blue card
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the topper, topper base and sentiment
Die-Namics - leaf filled flourish
Britannia Dies - large and medium multiflower rose dies
Hole punch, embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz"

London Tilda - Singing in the Rain

Hi!  I have a card to share with you today using some of the new Magnolia Little London collection stamps.  I haven't bought any Magnolia stamps for ages, but this set really caught my eye, so I had to add a few of them to my collection and have a play as soon as they arrived!

I chose some of my favourite backing papers from the Kraftyhands Chic Boutique CD which you can currently get at a super duper price in their online shop!  I cut two different sized square doilies with my Silhouette Cameo and layered them all up.

To create the focal image for the card, I stamped London Tilda, created a mask and then stamped the phone booth to make it look like its behind her.  Then coloured with Copics, and created a faux stitch detail around the scene and the layers of backing paper already on the card.

Having stuck the image onto the card, I knew it needed more but struggled to decide what for a while.  After die cutting several flowers and swirls, I decided to start again and print a double sided piece of paper using the two designs from the CD I had chosen as my backing papers.  I die cut several Chinese roses from this paper, rolled and glued them to create the flowers, then cut the leaves using a pink Copic pen to colour the leaves while still in the die.

I then stamped sentiment onto some of the backing paper and die cut it with a Spellbinder circle (as I am rubbish at cutting circles freehand), and layered it onto a lacey circle.  Finally gluing everything onto the card, which I think is rather pretty - I hope you agree!

I am adding this card to:
Crafting When We Can - #56 Make Your Own Flowers
Crafting With Dragonfiles - #14 Make Your Own Flower
Tilda's Town Challenges - #77 Anything Goes
Magnolia-licious - Tuesday Challenge Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Magnolia - London Tilda, Vintage Phone Booth stamps
LOTV - Sentiment stamp
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E50, E51, E53, E33, B91, B93, B95, B97, R81, R83, R85, R89, YG61, C0, C1, C3, C5, C7
American Crafts - Pink precision pen 0.5mm
Kraftyhands - Chic Boutique CD
Spellbinders - Classic leaf die set, lacey circles, classic circles
Marianne Designs - Chinese rose dies
Silhouette Cameo - square doily cute in two sizes
Hunkydory - 8x8" white card blank

Kraftyhands - Craft Nouveau CD launch

Kraftyhands next TV product launch is the gorgeous Craft Nouveau CD.  Its full of fabulous images, background papers, card sets, inserts and sentiments - I have to say I really love all the papers as they can be used for so many projects!  And when it comes to deciding which images to use first, well that will leave you with a dilemma!

The CD launches on Create and Craft on Tuesday 1st October - shows are planned for 11am and 3pm, so I hope you can tune in and see Mike and Ian demonstrate the CD and show us all the fab samples the Design Team has created!

There is so much than you can do with the elements on this CD, so I'll be sharing some of the cards I have made over the next few days - I hope you like them!

And don't forget the Kraftyhands Challenge - you still have a few days to enter the September sketch challenge!

I am adding this to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #159

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Craft Nouveau CD
Core'Dinations - green card
Ranger - Tea dye distress ink
Spellbinder - Les Papillions Two
Marianne Designs - clock die
Hunkydory - whitqe square card blank
Green pearls from stash

Lacy Sunshine Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

Its the start of a new challenge over at Lacy Sunshine, and as it Team Lexie's turn to start you off, here is my card using the gorgeous Mistletoe's Ornament digi. As always the theme is Anything Goes - a theme everybody loves, and the challenge will close on 20th July.

Anyone can enter, but only entries using a Lacy Sunshine image will be eligible for the winner's prize -
a fabulous $30 voucher to spend in the Lacy Sunshine Shop where you will be able to stock up on Heather's gorgeous digi images, and you get a winners blinkie for your blog. There will also be a Top Three who will each receive a blinkie and 2 of Heather's digis.  And if you don't have any of Heather's fab digis yet, there is always a freebie available so that you can take part and have a chance at winning - just check out the Challenge Blog.

And look out next weekend for a mid-challenge reminder from Team Heather, where you will see more inspiration and new digis launched! And yes, there will be new digis today too!  All the new digis you see in the fabulous design team samples will be on sale today!

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Mistletoe's Ornament digi
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E33, E35, E37, E50, YR20, R22, YG61, YG63, YG67, BG10, BG23, BG34, RV21, RV23, RV25, RV29
Kate Knight - Christmas Collection paper pack
Spellbinders - classic oval, classic squares
Marianne Design Dies - holly leaves
Waco - pastel pink pearl maker pen
Core'Dinations - teal card
Hunkydory - white square card blank
From stash - pink satin ribbon 

Lacy Sunshine #11 - Anything Goes

Its time for a mid-challenge reminder for the 11th Lacy Sunshine challenge! As always the theme is Anything Goes - a theme we all love, and closes on 6th July.

Anyone can enter, but only entries using a Lacy Sunshine image will be eligible for the winner's prize - a fabulous $30 voucher to spend in the Lacy Sunshine Shop where you will be able to stock up on Heather's gorgeous digi images, and you get a winners blinkie for your blog. There will also be a Top Three who will each receive a blinkie and 2 of Heather's digis.

I am adding this card to:
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Splitz Sticky Wings Striking a Pose
Copics - E000, E00, E01, BG000, BG01, BG05, YR20, YR23, R32
Teresa Collins - Sweet Afternoon paper
DCWV - blue card
Spellbinders - Girlie Grunge Labels, Bird Sanctuary, Butterfly Circles, Damask Motifs
Marianne Designs - Candy Hearts
Cheery Lynn Designs - French pastry doily
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank
Blue organza ribbon from stash

Flat Friends Challenge Blog #1!

Hi Everyone, hope you are all having a great weekend.

Emma Canning has just started the Flat Friends Challenge Blog to give all of  us chance to see some fab inspiration from her Design Team as well as share our own ideas using her yummy Flat Friends digi stamps (which you can buy from Polkadoodles).

The very first challenge is "Tic Tac Toe - 3 in a Row" where you pick a row of 3 items to incorporate in your card.  I decided to choose the following diagonal line - a sentiment - pastels or pinks - dies.

Good Luck with the new challenge blog Emma, here is my card using "Angel"

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Flat Friends Challenge Blog - Week 1 Tic Tac Toe 3 in a row
Polkadoodles - Week 40 Wings and Things
Make it Monday - Linky Party 110

Materials Used:
Emma Canning/Polkadoodles - Angel Flat Friends digi stamp
Copics - E00, E33, E40, E41, R000, RV10, RV21
Sakura - silver stardust gelly roll pen
Polkadoodles - Gingerbread Twist CD (papers recoloured in Serif)
Serif Craft Artist Professional - used to size digi stamp, print sentiment and recolour background papers
Spellbinders - A2 Matting Basics A and B, Fancy Framed Tags Two
Marianne Design Dies - Tiny Flowers 1(using the swirl part)
Letraset - fine line drawing pen
Craftwork Cards - white card blank

Bling It Up - Kraftyhands August Challenge

Its the beginning of a new month (how fast is this year going?!) so it's time for a new challenge over at Kraftyhands! This month the theme is "Bling It Up" and I chose to use one of the new Stampography stamps available on the website, and added a delicate bit of bling.  So come and join in over at http://kraftyhands.blogspot.co.uk/, create a project using Kraftyhands or Crafters Companion products available from Kraftyhands and be in with a chance of winning a £20 voucher to spend at http://www.kraftyhandsonline.co.uk/

I am linking this card to the following:
Simply Create Too - Challenge 19 Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Linky Party # 101

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Stampography Sew n Sew stamp set
Polkadoodles - Pen & Paper Circle Volume 3 CD
Spellbinders - Floral Ovals, Classic Ovals, Foliage set
Marianne Design Dies - Chinese Rose
Ranger Distress Ink - Spun Sugar
Craftwork Cards - white card
Kanban - irridescent gems

Pretty In Pink

The lovely ladies at Polkadoodles gave us a fab Emma Canning digi download, along with a sketch to inspire for their Facebook July challenge.  I have used papers from their Pen & Paper Circle volume 3 CD, and as you can see I chose all pink!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Polkadoodle Dandies - July Sketch challenge (on Facebook)
Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Linky Party #100

Materials Used:
Polkadoodles - Pen & Paper Circle Volume 3 CD, Emma Canning "Millie Bedtime" digi stamp
Flexmarkers - Cappuccino, Linen, Light Fawn, Nutmeg, Tea Rose, Blender
Letraset - Fine Line Drawing Pen
Craftwork Cards - white card blank
Marianne Designs Die - flower from the Cupcake set
Kanban - irridescent gems

There May Be Rain... But You Can Still Have Flowers!

Good evening my crafty blog friends :-) So its July, and you have to admit that the last few weeks have been anything but a sunny summer! And it may only be the 3rd of July, but so far I have seen rain for ALL of July! So I figured that maybe a 'happy flowery' card was in order!  So here is a colourful card that I would like to share with you today.

I am linking this to the Make It Monday - Linky Party #96

Materials Used:
Craftwork Cards: flowers, papers, sentiment, candi, white card blank
Marianne Design: Chinese Rose die (for the leaves)

Peaches n Cream Wedding Day

Here is my card for the Lili's Little Fairies Peaches n Cream Challenge

Materials used:
Lili of The Valley stamps - Wedding Couple, sentiment from For You Circular Sentiments
Promarkers
Crafters Companion - snow white centura pearl printable card and paper
Pink Petticoat - printable designer papers
Spellbinders - Foliage, Fleur de Lis Squares, Circles
Marianne Design Die - Chinese Rose

Lili's Little Fairies Challenge - Afternoon Tea

This is my first blog challenge card, so I had fun picking out a stamp from LOTV (Lili Of The Valley), some papers and ribbon and sitting down with my promarkers and coming up with this card. Making paper roses seems to be my latest love, so I just had to add some here!

I'd like to enter my card in the folowing challenge: Lili's Little Fairies Challenge - Afternoon Tea

Materials used:
LOTV Stamp - Time For A Cuppa
Ribbon - American Crafts
WRMK - Sew Ribbon tool
K & Company - dotty paper
Crafters Companion - snow white card
Core'dinations card - dark brown
Spellbinders - Teacups, Labels One, flourishes from Ornate Artisan Tags & Accents and Twisted Metal Tags & Accents
Marianne Design Die - Chinese Rose
Promarkers

A Special Birthday Card!

I had a special/important birthday card to make, and as I wanted it to be very special it took me some time to come up with the design. For some reason I REALLY REALLY wanted the Cricut Dress Form from the French Manor cartridge to be the main feature. After several attempts I came up with this design, which I was very pleased with!

Materials Used:
Crafters Companion -  Snow White printable card, printable paper
Cricut - French Manor
Spellbinder - Foliage, Labels 10
Marianne Design Die - Chinese Rose
Core'dinations card - dark brown
Anna Griffin card - pink check background
JosyRose ribbon - bridal white
Pink Petticoat - printable designer papers